''Sunday'' is a

television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

drama, produced by Sunday Productions for

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded en ...

and screened on 25 January 2002. It dramatises the events of Bloody Sunday in

Derry Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest City status in the United Kingdom, city in Northern Ireland, and the fifth-largest on the island of Ireland. Located in County Londonderry, the city now covers both banks of the River Fo ...

, Northern Ireland, through the eyes of the families of the dead and injured, specifically those of Leo Young, older brother of John Young, who was killed on the day. The timescale covers events in the years prior to Bloody Sunday, and subsequent events up to and including the Widgery Tribunal. It was written by

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and directed by

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, and the Channel 4 transmission was followed by a live studio debate about the issues involved. It was overshadowed by the rival '' Bloody Sunday'', shown eight days previously by ITV. While the ITV's ''Bloody Sunday'' filmed most of its scenes in Ballymun in Dublin, ''Sunday'' filmed the majority of its scenes in Derry itself. Streets and areas where the actual events of Bloody Sunday happened were used by the production team, such as William Street, Creggan, Craigavon Bridge and Harvey Street, where Father Edward Daly was, in a well-known scene, filmed waving a blood stained handkerchief escorting men carrying one of the victims, Jackie Duddy. It was released on DVD in the United Kingdom in February 2007. The film was the debut of Clare Crockett, who gave up acting to become a nun and died during missionary work in Ecuador in 2016.

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* Channel 4 television films Films about The Troubles (Northern Ireland) 2002 television films 2002 films British television films 2000s English-language films 2000s British films {{UK-tv-film-stub